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To: tekboy who wrote (3462)	10/16/2001 10:32:41 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) of 12231

Making the world safe for CDMA [starting with Afghanistan]. Tekuboi-san, AOS seems to be resolving into some good ideas which don't; thanks for the WSJ link. Message 16509332 It seems that the Islamic medievalists want to have the profits of modernity without the privately-owned, interest-bearing, free enterprise capitalism and cosmopolitan polyglot secular governmental systems which enable it. The WSJ article focuses too much on the benefits to Afghanistan and not enough on the benefits to the USA and Rest of World. We [the UN crowd] are not in it for charity! There's oil in them thar hills [north of and I suppose in Afghanistan] and that oil should be used to fund international agencies which politically stabilize Afghanistan and the production and transport of the oil. I'm sure George Bush and his oil buddies will notice those prospects. Russia and other countries in the area would benefit from a big oil cash flow too. Big pipelines across Afghanistan and Pakistan would be a good economic input to Afghanistan while diversifying low cost supply beyond the Straits of Hormuz. Maybe Saudi Arabia would like to get their chequebook out to help fund Afghanistan's stabilization. I hear they have $10 million burning a hole in their pocket which wasn't needed in New York. If Saudi Arabia does enough funding and keeps the price of oil around $15 a barrel, there might not be a need to build an Afghanistan pipeline to compete with Saudi oil too quickly. The USA has done enough funding by way of buying Saudi oil and providing military forces. The USA was the victim of the attack and I don't see why they should pay more to help out the people who have harboured the attackers and who have little cultural sympathy with the USA. Let's see Saudi Arabia, Iran and others in the area provide some serious support by way of money and military police. The UN can hire a big Pakistani force, using Saudi oil money, to man the sentry boxes while things in Afghanistan are sorted out. USA companies can bid for contracts to build pipelines [assuming they are a good investment]. Colinisation Powell seems to be doing a good job [thanks for that link too]http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/16/international/16CND-POWE.html?searchpv=nytToday Maybe Kashmir is the next place to be Colinized into a UN Protectorate. Pretty soon, the UN will be one of the biggest countries! Nation states are ugly artifacts from medieval times and the immediate mess in the world is due to the worst of them, based on medieval superstition, creating mayhem in downtown New York. When it took them a month by camel or horse to get across Eurasia, things were more easily managed. Roll on UN development into a sensible international federal organisation. First is needed some reconstitution and to get away from the silly one country one vote system,[Vanuatu equal to India is absurd]. Do you see what I mean about there being no sidelines? From the sidelines, Mqurice PS: Tek-baby is growing up quickly! Nice pictures, thanks. And congratulations on a fine-looking happy young man.

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